Gangsters with gun bans caught shooting at Poco range: Police

When people have court-ordered firearms bans, they are not supposed to go to the gun range.

But police are alleging that two Lower Mainland gangsters did just that and now both are facing charges.

Both Matin Pouyan and Bi Dong (Adam) Lam are due in Vancouver Provincial Court Thursday. They have been in custody since their arrest Dec. 21, 2012 in Walnut Grove.

They were seen by officers with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit heading to the DVC Indoor Shooting Range, where they are alleged to have done target practice. The problem is that violates Pouyan’s four firearms’ bans and Lam’s singular ban related to earlier convictions.

Here’s the statement I got from Wesley Yen, the manager of the shooting range, who cooperated fully with police:

The DVC Indoor Shooting Range is a fully-licensed facility that is open to the public and, as well, is used as a training venue by members of all of the major law enforcement agencies in the Lower Mainland. Within our facility all of the firearms which are available for use by range patrons are kept under lock and key, unloaded, and may only be handled by DVC trained and licensed staff outside our secure range area. Access into and out of our range area is controlled via two separate electronically-locked doors, and persons using the range are physically accompanied and supervised by DVC staff at all times. All persons using our facility are required to confirm in writing that they are not subject to any limitation or prohibition with respect to firearms. The DVC Indoor Shooting Range is committed to maintaining the highest standards of responsible and lawful firearms use, and in the extremely infrequent event that it comes to our attention that a person who has used our facility is subject to a prohibition from doing so, we are committed to cooperating fully with police and firearms regulatory officials as necessary.

Men with UN gang ties arrested after visit to Port Coquitlam shooting range

Two men with ties to the United Nations gang are accused of target shooting at a Port Coquitlam gun range last month, despite each being under court-ordered firearms bans.

Now Matin Bin Laden Pouyan and Bi Dong Lam are in custody charged with violating those bans.

Pouyan, 31, and Lam, 25, were being watched by anti-gang police with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit when they visited the PoCo indoor range on Dec. 19.

“Officers made observations of them attending a firearms range in Port Coquitlam and allegedly firing off guns,” CFSEU’s Sgt. Lindsey Houghton said Tuesday. “We received great cooperation from the gun range. We obtained evidence from the range that was forwarded to Crown counsel.

DVC Indoor Shooting Range manager Wesley Yen said in an emailed statement Tuesday that anyone using the facility has “to confirm in writing that they are not subject to any limitation or prohibition with respect to firearms.”

“In the extremely infrequent event that it comes to our attention that a person who has used our facility is subject to a prohibition from doing so, we are committed to cooperating fully with police and firearms regulatory officials as necessary,” he said.

Pouyan and Lam, who are well-known to police across Metro, were arrested Dec. 21 in Langley, near 90A Avenue and 204th Street. They are due to appear in Vancouver provincial court on Thursday.

Pouyan has four separate court orders banning his use of guns.

The most recent was issued in June 2011, when he got a lifetime ban and two years less a day in jail for a series of firearms convictions related to a 2009 arrest.

At the time, police described Pouyan as “a significant figure in organized crime” and said some of the seized weapons were in a secret compartment in his vehicle.

The 2009 arrest came just months after shot several times and nearly killed in a Kitsilano parking lot. He refused to cooperate with the police investigation.

After a Wild West shootout in Richmond’s Dover Park in early 2007, Pouyan was arrested and charged with illegal gun possession. He pleaded guilty in September 2007, getting a two-year sentence.

When Pouyan was convicted in 2007, he was already under a lifetime firearms ban handed to him after he opened fire in a crowded Abbotsford nightclub on Valentine’s Day 2004.

In June 2004, B.C. Supreme Court Justice William Grist handed Pouyan the 18-month term requested by Crown but wondered “whether this range is sufficient in light of the seemingly increased illegal presence of these highly destructive weapons.”

“Denunciation of offences involving gun use expresses the value Canadian society places on a freedom from the fear associated with widespread access to this form of deadly force,” Grist said in his June 28, 2004 sentencing.

Pouyan had fired a 9-mm Glock in the City Limits Cabaret. He “was seen loading the pistol on the street before entry to the crowded nightclub,” Grist noted.

“He apparently was going to deal, in some fashion, with one or a number of individuals inside of the premises. When he found them, there were words exchanged and Mr. Pouyan drew and fired the gun.”

Pouyan missed his target and hit a wall.

Lam’s record is not as long as Pouyan’s, but includes a 10-year firearms ban ordered in 2007 when he was convicted of break-and-enter stemming from a home invasion in Langley.

He was also found guilty of impaired driving in September 2007 and given a day in jail and a year-long driving prohibition.

He was charged and acquitted in a 2009 shooting at a Surrey house party.

Koshan is a lil hideout after his baby moma got shot in his car and. He realized that could of been him he ratted to the cops everything and bounced I don’t even know why he’s mentioned on this blog he’s not a gangster. He’s a jacker plain n simple he used to walk around thinking he was the shit because he had money he robbed from people hey koshan how u liking life now u hideout goof can’t even show ur face in surrey or get your haircut at florens anymore can u goof

Are you a fuckin retard? I don’t think koshan would side with the younger brother of one of the guys involved in Nikki’s death ha ha *wink wink* gtfo you gossiping little kuti. Koshan is LONG GONE with his kids, so is his brother abby.

To be a certified hitman you have to subscribe to Soldier Of Fortune Mag, have a valid PAL issued by the gov’t, and last but not least, know how to unload a clip into a Cayenne and manage to only kill one, maim a few and bring hell upon yourself and your crew. Good job certified hitman guy, I’ll start off a slow clap just for you.

At least your punctuation was better this time. Keep up the good work! At this pace you will appear to be completely literate. Be careful with the run-on sentences. While you are at it, look into the meaning of sarcasm.

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